Goodbye, Chiang Kai-shek

Driven out of mainland China by Mao's communists, Chiang Kai shek, the man who ruled Taiwan for more than a quarter of a century, is now being written out of history.

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[koy362]

Long live ROC

[BrusselsSouth]

That was then and this is now. Beijing should allow a referendum on the mainland to see if there is a massive intrest to re-unite peacefully the ROC. You might be astonished how many KMT do live on the mainland, but they have to keep their mouth shut by the CCP.

[DYoshe]

Chiang Kai-shek wasn't a great leader. But he was a great general who managed to reunite China, albeit not culturally. China could have been a much more prosperous country, it was only thirty years after he abdicated that China finally liberalized their economy. Something that would have been done if Chiang ruled absolutely.

[Vampiric59]

@ComradeMing good job 50 cent party, go get your money from big hu :)

[Vampiric59]

@theway1151 whatever 50 cent party

[theway1151]

there is no way he was worst than Mao...

[PJ3love]

@symetricbody hey, go pratice your English some place else - I am learning Chinese so here you speak chinese ok

[PJ3love]

Mao was so sad to see him die that he died himself about a year and a half later...

[jigsaw99]

I grew up in Taiwan and i remember having to sing songs about great leader Chiang Kai-shek in grade school and reading book about how awesome and "brave" he is in textbooks. He ruled Taiwan like a God almost like North Korea's Kim Jung Ill. Unfortunatly, he is able to brainwash many people. Even to this day, there's a larger than life "god-like" statue in Taipei and people still worshipping him and Taiwan is an "established" first-world democracy. It's pretty fucking sad.

[finecool1]

This is stupid, Chiang Kai-shek isn't responsible for isolating Taiwan from the world, mainland China is responsible for that. Also, Chiang Kai-shek may have abused human rights but he's mostly responsible for the high quality of life that most Taiwanese enjoy today.

[MrHelmyabdullah]

@BrusselsSouth Really ? I'm suprised . I thought there's no KMT or ROC supporters in the Mainland

[AScann3rDarkly]

I wonder how the situation is now. A year after this video was made the candidate from Guomindang won the presidential election by a landslide, so Chiangs party is back in power and it doesn't look like they'll be leaving any time soon.